I almost never use portable mode and would have definitely preferred a slightly cheaper non-portable version, but it would be pretty dumb for me to pretend that was the expereince of everyone who buys a Switch. If it wasn’t portable, I don’t see any reason to think it would be any more successful than the Wii U.

>We had no idea that peroxide was so readily available in 285 B.C., but the film’s historical inaccuracies go beyond Farrell’s Miss Clairol locks

That still sounds very tedious, and you also have to clean the grater now too.

More likely, something like this was developed to help deal with widespread staff shortages. Automation of repetitive kitchen tasks has basically been nonexistent even though the technology to do it has existed for a long time, because it was generally cheaper to just hire a person at minimum wage. The post-covid…

Dorsey is pretty much a proto-Musk. Like Musk, he didn’t really have anything to do with actually building company he’s most associated with (Twitter for Dorsey, Tesla for Musk), but stepped in and had an excellent PR team who managed to spin press articles to re-write history to tell a story of him as an innovative…

It was the Thai cave thing that made me sour on him too. I don’t think I was ever a particularly big fan of his, but I did think he was interesting and reasonably likable and thought the rockets and cars were cool. I think I might have even thought the Hyperloop was a real thing that was going to be a big deal that…

I put this 100% down to the cost of drinks and 0% down to any generational conflict bullshit. 18-22 year olds, surprise surprise, have less money to spend on drinks you get at concerts compared to their older counterparts, especially when the prices are extortiately high. You know why they liked that borg thing?…

Tbh a lot of this sounds like the same kinds of things that were said about gay people back in the day, when being gay was considered a pretty extreme sexual deviancy and a very taboo subject. I get what you’re saying that there are going to be major social consequences, and even for gay people today if you live in…

I was much too young to see this when it actually came out, but I did see it when I was in college over a decade ago and found it really weird and uncomfortable then. At the time I was trying to go through lots of older movies that were widely considered classics and I loved most of them, but more than any other, the…

That’s not really every level. There are two levels where they succeed: veganism (since they aren’t made of animals) and enviornmentally (since they don’t involve the enviornmentally strenuous task of raising meat).

I assumed he was speaking from his own perspective of just wishing Twitter would end up being a successful and well-run company, not from the perspective of satisfying shareholders. Although if he’s startup-brained enough maybe he also thought that Twitter could still be worth a lot more potentially down the line if…

Any mea culpa for the face that this very publication incorrectly reported that the original actors from the film were the ones who performed on stage in the post-Oscars recap now that it’s chastising the Academy for not even casting dancers who were Indian at all?

It’s not about being objective though, and it’s not just gamers. The AFI and BFI publish lists of “greatest films of all time” and Rolling Stone get a lot of attention for their regular “Greatest” lists of songs, musicians, albums etc. Fans of various sports will regularly argue about who the greatest athletes are. In…

The two standouts to me are Far Cry 4 and Sonic Adventure 2. Those two games would never ordinarily even be in this conversation and their inclusion at all bizarre. Beyond that, most things in the list probably could at least have a case to be included in a top 20, even if they order they’re included in is very…

Because opinions can be aggregated so they represent a larger sample and give you a better idea of what the consensus is. There are games or movies or albums or whatever that I personally would love and might put in my own top 20 list of favourites, but if I saw them on a list of the “20 Greatest of All Time” I’d…

Of course someone will always get mad over opinions, but we should be able to at least agree that _fewer_ people would be criticising it, and the actual list itself would be a lot more defensible.

I’d wager there’s a majority who are either completely indifferent to the problems facing trans people or actively hostile towards them, so that’s not an opinion I particularly put a lot of stock in. The people who don’t know why the things she says are transphobic are largely the ones who do not understand enough to…

It’s crazy how people have such a hard time finding a quote where George Wallace says “I hate black people”. I mean, based on this one weird arbitrary rule that completely avoids taking any kind of context into account, he was never racist at all.

I thought that was going to be a joke but the punchline never dropped.

Yeah, that really does feel like the way Chappelle has gone. Imo there’s a contrast between him and someone like Bill Burr, who is another major comic who is a similar age and who has some provokative anti-”woke” material. Even though Burr would unfortunately probably never say a negative thing about him, and is…